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it's about the murdoch heritage. it's about the newspapers in britain rather than about the future of news corp. >> it could go spent i'm not suggesting it happens today. i'm not suggesting five years time, but actually maybe if there's a post rupert murdoch moment, and who knows what that will be, when the guys in new york want to make a distant company. >> remember, that the only grounds of the competition commissioner going to judge the sky deal on its plurality. that is, its impact on the number of distinct voices in british news. if the murdoch empire gets rid of its british newspapers, well, the plurality problem goes away. >> now, michael is a contributing editor to "vanity fair," and knows rupert murdoch better than most having spent 50 hours interviewing him for a biography. he joins us now from new york. this talk that we are over on this side of the atlantic, that murdoch might just get rid of all his newspapers here in order to concentrate on television, doesn't make sense to use the? well, we hear it on
it's about the murdoch heritage. it's about the newspapers in britain rather than about the future of news corp. >> it could go spent i'm not suggesting it happens today. i'm not suggesting five years time, but actually maybe if there's a post rupert murdoch moment, and who knows what that will be, when the guys in new york want to make a distant company. >> remember, that the only grounds of the competition commissioner going to judge the sky deal on its plurality. that is, its...
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murdoch and james murdoch more regularly than i did when i was executor. >> once a day or twice a day? >> james murdoch and i had offices next week other but we had travel schedules and wide responsibilities. i would talk to rupert murdoch quite regularly. >> once a day? twice a day? >> on average every other day but pretty regularly. >> "news of the world," everyone was working hard and i am not sure they didn't -- that is admirable. why is that not something for tom crone? he left employment because these jobs no longer existed at "news of the world". if you are trying to find a job for everybody at "news of the world" y did you not find a job for him? >> there are some people that didn't want a job. in the case of tom crone, he was legal manager and as mr. sheridan pointed out he drove secretaries of many -- in the case of tom as i explained he worked as manager of "news of the world" and the legal team on all the other newspapers. that was the current situation with tom. [inaudible] >> did you know when you were at "news of the world" -- somebody who was an informant to please? >>
murdoch and james murdoch more regularly than i did when i was executor. >> once a day or twice a day? >> james murdoch and i had offices next week other but we had travel schedules and wide responsibilities. i would talk to rupert murdoch quite regularly. >> once a day? twice a day? >> on average every other day but pretty regularly. >> "news of the world," everyone was working hard and i am not sure they didn't -- that is admirable. why is that not...
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. >> news corporation chairman and ceo rupert murdoch has now agreed to testify to appear tuesday before british parliament committee. >> part of the u.s. delegation attending the independent day similar. thursday he testified before the senate foreign relations committee about u.s. politics toward sudan and south sudan. including continued military conflicts in the region along with the two nations border and disagreements over oil revenues shoot. this evening is 90 minutes. >> -- this meeting is 90 minut minutes. >> the hearing will come to order. thank you all very much for being here this morning. ambassador lyman, it is a great privilege to welcome you back to the committee we appreciate enormously the work that you are doing as the president's special envoy to sudan. and i want to just thank you personally. i've had a chance to see you working in many meetings that we've had together there in sudan, and i've been extraordinary impressed by your steady, calm, tireless commitment to working under difficult circumstances to make progress. it's the essence of good diplomacy, and i real
. >> news corporation chairman and ceo rupert murdoch has now agreed to testify to appear tuesday before british parliament committee. >> part of the u.s. delegation attending the independent day similar. thursday he testified before the senate foreign relations committee about u.s. politics toward sudan and south sudan. including continued military conflicts in the region along with the two nations border and disagreements over oil revenues shoot. this evening is 90 minutes....
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murdoch. the hearing wrapped up and they resumed after a brief interruption in london after a protester threw what appeared to be foam pie at mr. murdoch. here's what happened this morning. >> the last question and i will try to be a few very specific questions that i would like to ask you. starting with you mr. james murdoch, you've been over at length the differences and to pay the settlements, can you just tell me whether or not the settlements included a confidentiality clause and maybe the other settlements did not? [screaming] >> again, part of the disruption today at the phone hacking scandal in london, a parliament hearing that was underway and ran three hours or so. we're going to show that to you later on in our program schedule and we also want to remind you tomorrow on here on c-span2, we will be covering the statement of prime minister david cameron that will get underway at 6:30 eastern live here tomorrow morning on c-span2. we're hoping to take you live to the white house for th
murdoch. the hearing wrapped up and they resumed after a brief interruption in london after a protester threw what appeared to be foam pie at mr. murdoch. here's what happened this morning. >> the last question and i will try to be a few very specific questions that i would like to ask you. starting with you mr. james murdoch, you've been over at length the differences and to pay the settlements, can you just tell me whether or not the settlements included a confidentiality clause and...
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when he was working for the paper pre-rupert murdoch. i was in london dreaming of one day becoming a blogger in america. i can't wait to read walter's new book on steve jobs. it's safe to say that right now walter is probably the only man in washington who was making jobs at a priority. [laughter] [applause] >> and i also loved his other autobiography on henry kissinger, and partly because henry kissinger was the first man to reassure me when i moved to new york that having an accent was not a problem. [laughter] he said to me, you can never underestimate in the american public the complete advantages of other income for his. [laughter] >> there's no question that not just at this time but particularly this week, media is an incredible time of transition. i happened to be in london and we are launching the "huffington post" u.k. when the phone hacking scandal started. and it was amazing to see two things. first of all, how all fashion and a credibly irrelevant, the debate between all media -- old media new media. there was an institution
when he was working for the paper pre-rupert murdoch. i was in london dreaming of one day becoming a blogger in america. i can't wait to read walter's new book on steve jobs. it's safe to say that right now walter is probably the only man in washington who was making jobs at a priority. [laughter] [applause] >> and i also loved his other autobiography on henry kissinger, and partly because henry kissinger was the first man to reassure me when i moved to new york that having an accent was...
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i think we need to be frank the left overpowers the murdoch and the left on the bbc and never again should we let a media group get too powerful. i give way to the honorable gentleman. >> i'm grateful to the prime minister. john yates wrote to me last week as previous home secretary a private and confidential letter that said -- [laughter] >> let's learn about this private and confidential letter. mr. allen johnson. >> there's a certain paradox there, mr. speaker. he said the reason that a new investigation has been commenced and the situation has subsequently changed so markedly, that since the advice given to me as home secretary, is that in january 2011 news international began to cooperate properly with the police. it is now evident that this was not the case beforehand. january, 2011, was when andy coulson resigned. does the prime minister just think that's a coincidence? >> the point i was going to make which is important is the re-opening of the investigation in my understanding was in response to new information from news international wasn't in response to the april article. the p
i think we need to be frank the left overpowers the murdoch and the left on the bbc and never again should we let a media group get too powerful. i give way to the honorable gentleman. >> i'm grateful to the prime minister. john yates wrote to me last week as previous home secretary a private and confidential letter that said -- [laughter] >> let's learn about this private and confidential letter. mr. allen johnson. >> there's a certain paradox there, mr. speaker. he said the...
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i associate myself with my colleagues who want more answers on a hacking scandal of the murdoch enterprises. we must hold internet service providers and search engines accountable. we have to hold service providers accountable for their actions and i look forward to hearing from our panel today. i yield back. >> i think the gentlelady and thank my colleagues for their opening statement that we turn our attention to a panel. one panel of witnesses joins us today. has prepared an opening statement that will be placed into the record. you will have five minutes to summarize the statement in your remarks. we have the hon. julius genachowski of the federal communications commission, the hon. edith ramirez of the federal trade commission and lawrence strickland of the telecommunications and information administration. we welcome you back to the hearing room. you will be recognized for five minute and i'm sure you are familiar with the timers on the table. when the light turns yellow you have one minute left. as i have been at vonage make sure your microphone is on and close to your mouth. i am pl
i associate myself with my colleagues who want more answers on a hacking scandal of the murdoch enterprises. we must hold internet service providers and search engines accountable. we have to hold service providers accountable for their actions and i look forward to hearing from our panel today. i yield back. >> i think the gentlelady and thank my colleagues for their opening statement that we turn our attention to a panel. one panel of witnesses joins us today. has prepared an opening...